WORKFLOW/WEB-TO-PRINT

Seamless integration of customers into production workflows and automation are enabling printers to
implement hands-off job processing to maximize efficiency. Web-to-print, JDF (Job Definition Format),
MIS integrations and digital/offset hybrid workflows are some of the technologies making this possible.

Prisma Graphic : All the Right Moves

Prisma Graphic has transformed itself from a boutique print shop into a full-service marketing supply chain provider with a strong...
The Latest Developments in Monitor Soft Proofing

MONITOR SOFT proofing allows many benefits in terms of time and convenience. With the current economic challenges, all printers must...
Get Technical

Service could get pretty stormy for San Mateo, California-based PageDNA customers if it wasn't for cloud computing. ...
MIS to Workflow Integration : Getting Production to Flow

JDF's potential is yet to be realized, but there is another pathway for integrating MIS and production—shop floor data collection...
Rex Three : Technology Provides Edge

Rex Three's customers benefitted from exceptional service and faster turn times on projects due to its istallation of LithoTechnics...
Mimeo.com : Driven to Succeed Online

Mimeo.com went from being a business model on paper to an online print provider with more than 450 employees and...
Transcontinental Inc. : Automating the Process

Transcontinental has made a concerted effort to automate operations for several years now, originally with the use of scripts and...
Workflow/Web-to-Print LinkedIn Groups

The following LinkedIn groups provide opportunities to connect with other graphic arts professionals who use or offer Workflow/Web-to-Print solutions: ...

Web-to-Print-to-Profit

March 1, 2010 From Print Solutions

Industry leaders discuss the best tactics for profiting from web-to-print solutions....

Interfaces for Web-to-Print

February 1, 2010 From Graphic Arts Online

Taking orders online isn't always easy, but it's now vital for printing firms....

Digital and Offset Printing : Seeking Workflow Oneness

November 2009 From Printing Impressions

The workflow concept is being extended even further to achieve a continuum of production capabilities that can span from digital (toner and ink-jet, including wide-format)...

Lessons Learned: Boyd Badten of PrintingForLess.com

December 1, 2009 From pactical ecommerce

The business runs on custom, proprietary software developed by Badten and his co-workers. It was one of the earliest ecommerce platforms that could convert both...

Better files

November 1, 2009 From American Printer

The 7 deadly signs of print production...some of the nightmarish things that designers do when preparing a project to be printed. ...

Digital Printing & Workflow : Exhibitors Cop an App-itude

October 2009 From Printing Impressions

In the digital arena, putting  greater emphasis on applica-  tions and business development tools has been a growing trend among trade show exhibitors for some...

Preparing Files for Print – Chapter 2

November 18, 2009 From PaperSpecs

In my first article, I began scratching the surface of the issues designers (and printers) face as they prepare files for print. To recap, I...

Web to PRINT 09

November 3, 2009 From American Printer

It was difficult to avoid seeing or hearing the phrase “web to print” (W2P) at PRINT 09. The concept has been with us since the...

The Goodway Group : When You’re Good, You’re...

September 2009 From Printing Impressions

ONLY IN A printer's wildest  dreams would it imagine being so good at its craft that Fortune 500 clients would request that it build...

Modern International Graphics — Attitude Means Everything

Modern International Graphics management team

August 2009 From Printing Impressions

MODERN International Graphics is an FSC-certifed, $15 million, G7 Master Printer with a dozen Fortune 500 clients. But, it’s the way that the company operates—its...